I need some help analyzing the following four quotes from Macbeth. I really do not know what any of them mean (as I do not understand them at all), and any help would be greatly appreciated. Basically, you have to talk about how each quote relates the plot, theme, and/or characterization. The most detailed answer (and the one that answers all 4 will receive Best Answer):
Quotes:
1. "Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."
2. "Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil."
3. "Is this a dagger, which I see before me,..?"
4. "unnatural deeds do breed unnatural trouble’s."
-Thanks
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1. Your real fears are not as bad as anything you could imagine.
2. Only children fear the devil
3. This is when hes hallucinating and sees the dagger that killed King Duncan
4. If you do things you shouldn’t do, they bring weird troubles.
it’d be great if you added some context to these quotes… i’d be easier to analyze since i read this last year. i can help on #3 though…
in this scene macbeth is pondering whether or not he should murder duncan. we know that at this point macbeth is still fighting with his conscience to the point where he "sees" a dagger in his hand…stained with blood. the dagger symbolizes macbeth’s desires and also foreshadows the king’s death. this quote itself demonstrates the the unhealthy ambition macbeth has but also the inner good he has in the beginning of the play. the fact that macbeth actually struggles with this decision highlights the battle of good and evil within his character. and as we all know…good loses.
1. What we are actually faced with is not as bad as what we imagined before we faced it.
2. It is childish to react to the representation of evil as one would to the actual evil.
3. Lady Macbeth thinks she sees a dagger because she keenly feels her guilt.
4. Deeds that are outside the norms of human society, such as the murder of a king, cause troubles that are also outside the norms of the usual sort of trouble.
1. his fears are stupid, it’s all in his mind
2. it’s childish to be afraid of something that’s not real and cant hurt you
3. macbeth imagines he sees the dagger he’s going to use to murder duncan with in front of him. it foreshadows his descent into madness.
4. what goes around comes around. it foreshadows macbeth’s downfall and defeat. for example, because of all the bad things he did his wife went mad and killed herself from guilt, he went nuts, the people turned on him and he was killed by macduff.
i actually had no problem with this play. it was romeo and juliet that really gave me trouble.
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